Stock quotation system



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16 Claims.

The present invention relates to stock-quotation systems, but it concerned more particularly with receivers used to receive transmitted stock quotations and display them on suitable indicators.

One object of the invention is the production of a new and improved receiver adaptable to receive stock quotations over one-wire lines and also over four-wire lines, interchangeable equipment being provided to permit it to operate over either line.

Another object has to do with the production of a receiver especially adapted to perform an abbreviated service in that it responds to and posts only the last price of stock quotations, whereas the receivers ordinarily employed post the previous close, the open, the high, the low, and th-e last price.

General description In the Robinson et al. divisional application, 631,906, September 6, 1932, now Patent 2,049,627, granted August 4, 1936, a four-wire receiver (one which receives stock quotations over a four-wire line) is disclosed, while in the application of Robinson, 562,320, September 11, 1931, the fourwire receiver is modifiedy to operate over a onewire line. Now, the receivers in the two applications mentioned are highly specialized so that neither is capable of operation over a line of the type over which the other receiver operates. It will be at once apparent that it is desirable that a receiver be universal so that it can be used with either type of line, as this reduces the number of receivers that need to be carried in stock to meet the varying demand.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings comprising Figs. 1 to 8, they show by means of the usual circuit diagrams a suflicient amount of equipment in a stock-quotation receiver embodying the features of the invention to enable the invention to be understood.

Figs. 1 to 6 (of which Figs. l to 5-should be placed in successive order, with Fig. 6 under Fig.

fi) show the receiver equipped for one-wire operation over the one-wire line OWL, Fig. l. When Figs. 7 and 8 are substituted for Figs, 1 and 2, respectively, the receiver is adapted for four-wire operation over the four-wire line FWL, Fig. 'i'.

Referring now particularly to Figs. l to 6, the equipment unit EUi, Fig. 1, includes the receiving line relay ll, together with motor-control relays l02--l0' and the sequence-control relays lill-t I0, while the equipment unit lifUZ, Fig. 2,

includes the receiving distributor 200, together with the driving motor and controlling apparatus 20L-264 and the impulsing cams 205-208, driven by the driving motor of the distributor 200.

Figs. 3 and 4 show the registers SH, ST, and SU, which register the stock-hundreds, stocktens, and stock-units digits; the register SR, which registers the stock-range digit; and the registers PT, PU, and PF, which register the price-tens, price-units, and` price-fractions digits. These registers are operated through the segments in ring 22l of the distributor 200.

Fig. 5 shows the apparatus for selecting the group of indicators to be operated, together with the indicator board IB and a single indicator group for showing the last price only of a stock.

Fig. 6 shows one of the two local senders used to send impulses to effect the desired positioning of the indicators onthe indicator board IB, Fig. 5.

As explained in the Robinson et al. patent hereinbefore referred to, the stocks whose quotations are handled by the system are divided into two groups, and the receiver is similarly divided into two sections, each section corresponding to a group of stocks. The sections are indicated section l and section 2. The registers PT, PU, and PF, Fig. 4, together with the local sender shown in detail in Fig. 6, are specific to section l, while the similar equipment for section 2 is indicated by the rectangle at the bottom of Fig. 6. The cable G carries the necessary conductors to the second section. Also, the two terminal blocks H and 5I2, together with the associated connecting relays 50| and 502, are speciiic to the two sections, respectively. It may be pointed out that the division of stocks into two groups and the provision of two sections in the receiver enables the interconnecting line to be utilized more fully, as a quotation specic to one section may be received and stored while the local sender specific to the other section is disposing of a stock quotation previously received.

It is to be noted that a dotted rectangle JMI is disclosed in Fig. 1, while a dotted rectangle JMZ is disclosed in Fig. 2, and that conductor terminals are indicated at various points in the dotted lines forming these rectangles. These rectangles, together with the indicated terminals, indicate a jack-mounting for an equipment unit. The equipment unit EUI, Fig. 1, for example, may be removed and replaced by the equipment unit EUS, Fig. 7, the jack mounting JMI, Fig. 7, being the Same jack mounting indicated in Fig; 1.

Similarly, the equipment unit EU2, Fig. 2, may be lifted out of the jack mounting JMZ and replaced by the equipment unit EU4, Fig. 8, the jack mounting JM2 shown in Fig. 8 being the same one indicated in Fig. 2. The jack connections, indicated by the terminals located at points in the dotted lines forming the rectangles may be similar to the jack connections by means of which switches used in automatic telephone practice may be removed and replaced as desired without the necessity of removing and reconnecting the concerned wires.

In order to avoid the necessity Qflthefprovision of an additional motor Afor driving the inter- Y rupters or impulse generators associated with the local senders, the shaft of thedriving motor of the distributor 200 is provided with cams 205, 206, 201, and 208 and associated impulse contacts. The xed jack terminals associated with the impulse springs are suitably wired up tothe local. senders, as willbe later explained.

When thefreceiver is `being used in Yconnection with a four-wire line, andthe equipment unit EU2,.Fig. 2, is replaced by the equipment unit EU4, Fig. 8, cams similar to the cams 205-208 are driven :by agovernor-controlled motor, and the corresponding impulse springs; of course, make connections-through the same jack contacts of the jack mounting-JM-Z-withthe local senders.

Upon reference' to the local senders', Fig. 6, it is to be noted thatalmotor shaft is 4shown in Fig. 6 carrying cams 6|8-to 62|, which cams are indicatedas operating impulse springs for sending impulsesto the localsenders. 'Ihi-s showing in Fig. 6 has been made for the purpose of illustration only, and-itis to 'be understood that the Yconcerned conductors lare wired to the contacts of jackmountingfJMZ, Figs: 2 and 8, and that the cams 61.8 to `62| and associated impulse springs are merely representative of the cams of equipment-unit EU2, Fig. 2, or of equipment-unit EU4,-.Fig. A8. Y Y

The motor generator MG, shown in Fig. 3, is controlled. over conductors |3f| and |32 in a manner similar to vthat disclosed in the applications referred toy hereinbefore and as will be pointed. out hereinafter.

sive to quotations-ofthe different characters will be explained.

One-wire operation Y Itis to be noted that the electro-polarized line relay |0l, together with relays |02and |03, is normally actuated. The normal .actuation of the line relay |0| is Vbrought about by the normal application of. marking current to the one-Wire line OWL at the controlling station. Relay I0| isthe same typerof electro-polarizedY relay employed asaline-.relay inthe patent hereinbefore referred. to. Relay |03,=itv.mayr be mentioned, is

maintaining-a circuitclosed for the starter S,

Fig. 3,- and the magnet ofthe starter-Sis maintaining thev circuit closed to keep the motor :generator MG inloperation tosupply operating current for the receiver through the bus-bars v30| :and y3 02'.

It will now be'assumedthata quotation is received over line OWL concerning the last price of the stock represented by the indicators 5|4-5i 6 at the indicator board IB, Fig. 5. In response to the start impulse (constituting a substitution of spacing current for marking current) the line relay |0| is restored, thereby closing a circuit over conductor |24 for the start magnet 225 of the distributor 200, whereupon the brushes 226 and 221 are released and permitted to pass over all the segments in the associated rings and return again to starting position. The line relay |0| is reoperated momentarily for each reapplication of marking current during the travel of the brushes, in each case sending a signal to actuate one of the register relays of Figs. 3 and 4. The register relays are connected to the indicated segments in the segmented ring 22|, whereby they are operated when a positive potential is applied by way of conductor |24 and brush 226 to the' concerned segments of ring 22|. Brush 221, in co-operation with the energized solid ring 223 and the divided ring 224, applies hold- Ving current by way of conductor 209 to maintain the relays in registers SH, ST, SU, and SR, Fig. 3.

In one-wire operation, the rst quotation transmitted to a receiver following an interval of non-transmission always pertains to section while the following quotation'spertain to the two sections alternately. The sequence-control relays in equipment unit EUI, Fig. 1, function to control the association of the two sections according' to the above arrangement. Under the assumption that the instant quotation is received following a quiet period, the sequence-control relays are in `normal condition and the energiza- .tion of locking conductor |28 responsive to the movement of brush 221 of the distributor over the off-normal portion of ring 224 results in the energization of the slow-acting control relay ||0 and in the extension of an energizing potential by way of contacts on relay |61 to the section-i selecting conductor |29. Relays 40| and 50| are energized over conductor |29 to associate the common portion of the receiver with the individual section Assuming that the stock digits received are 2, l, and l, relays A and C in the register SH, Fig. 3, are operated; relay B in the register ST is operated, and relay Bin the register SU is operated.

Assuming that the price being received is the last price', (as distinct from high last, low last, etc.), and that the price is being received in tens, units, and fractions, relays A and D in the stockrange register SR are operated. Accordingly, conductors 2, I, and associated with the registers SH, ST, and SU are selected, while the .startcontrol relay 363 associated with the stock-range register SR is operated through contacts of the energized relays A and D by way of contacts of the non-energized relay B. Since the price is registered in tens, units, and fractions, relay C in the stock-range register SR is not operated, and the price-range conductor 305 remains disconnected.

When relay 303 operates, it completes the energization of the selected stock units conductor at its left-hand armature, while at its right-hand armature it energizes conductor 304, closing a circuit by way of contacts of the energized section-i relay 50|, and conductor 405 for the start relay 6|6 of the section-i local sender, Fig. 6. A branch o1" conductor 405 extends to the pricetens register PT to allor-d locking current for the relays thereof.

With relay 40| energized over the section-I conductor |29, the impulses representing the price digits are received on the section-I registers PT, PU, and PF, Fig. 4, the operated ones of the relays becoming locked over conductor 405 and conductor 622 (energized by start relay SIS).

Selecting the stock With the second conductor energized in stockhundreds group SH, the hundreds selecting relay H2, Fig. 5, is energized, connecting the conductors in the stock-tens group ST to the terminal block 502. With the first conductor in the stocktens group ST energized, a circuit is now closed through contacts of relay H2 and a jumper on the distributing frame DF for the upper winding of the two-step stock relay 5 I3. The upper winding of relay 5i3 is intentionally made inefcient so that it energizes the relay only sufliciently to close its inner lower contacts, whereby the complete energization of the relay and the consequent operation of the remaining ones of its contact springs is dependent upon the completion of a circuit for the lower winding of the relay.

With the rlrst conductor in the stock-units group S2 energized, a circuit is closed through contacts of the section-I relay 50|, a terminal in the section-| block 5| I, a jumper on the distributing frame DF, and contacts of relay 5I3, for the lower winding of relay 5I3. Upon the energization of its lower winding, relay 5I3 is fully energized and operates all its remaining contacts. At its upper armature, relay 5I3 locks itself to conductor |520 (energized by the upper armature of start relay 6|0), while at its lower armatures it connects up the indicators 5I4, 5I5, and 5|6 preparatory to their operation to display the tens, units, and fractions digits of the new quotation.

Posting the new quotation The way in which the new quotation is posted responsive to the action of the section-I local sender, Fig. 6, will now be pointed out. When start relay BIB is operated over conductor 405 as above pointed out (responsive to the action of the start control relay 303 associated with the stock-range register SR), conductors 6I8, 6|9, 620, and 622 are energized by the contacts of relay 6I6, and relay BIB closes a locking circuit for itself at its inner lower armature by Way of the inner lower armature of the O counting relay SI2 of the local sender.

With conductor 6I8 energized, a pick-up circuit exists through the upper contacts controlled by cam '6I8 (keeping in mind that the cams BIB to 02| are merely a reproduced showing of the corresponding cams in equipment units EU2 and EU4, Figs. 2 and 8) and contacts of relays 6I4,

6I3, 6I0, 608, 606, E04, and 602, for pick-up relay |30|. Relay 60| operates and locks. itself to conductor II8 in series with relay 602, so that relay 602 energizes in series with relay 60| as soon as the cam |3 opens the associated spring contacts. When relay 602 operates, it transfers the relayoperating circuit to the relays '603 and 004 at its upper contacts, while at its lower contacts it connects the energized conductor 6 0 through the three lower armatures of the actuating-ground relay SI to the tens, units, and fractions conduc tors 402', 403, and 404. With these conductors now energized, impulsing circuits are closed through the contacts of cams SIS and 62| and over conductors S23-625 for the magnets of indicators 5I4-5I, by way of contacts of stock relay 5I3. The impulse return path for the magnets of the registers is to ground by Way of the lower contacts of the indicated off-normal springs. As soon as a register has reached its normal position, its cam-controlled off-normal spring is moved into engagement with its upper contacts, thereby opening the restoring circuit and preparing the resetting circuit.

As is explained more in detail in the Robinson et al. patent mentioned hereinbefore, the delivery of the restoring impulses to the selected indicators is accompanied by the successive operation of relays 603 to 6|0 and (5I3 and 6|4, and relays 603 to 6|0 are restored responsive to the actuation of relays 0| 3 and 6I4 so that they may be reoperated immediately to count the resetting impulses. The actuating-ground relay SI5 is operated in multiple with counting relay 6I4. At its three lower armatures it disconnects the energized conductor 0|9 from the tens, units,

and fractions conductors 402', 403, and 404, while at its upper armature it energizes the actuatingground conductor 62|, thereby completing a return path for the rst restoring impulse through contacts of stock relay 5I3 and the upper oifnormal contacts of the registers 5I45I0.

The continued application of potential to the conductors 402', 403, and 404 now depends upon the connections that are made through the contacts of relays 603 to SI2 to the digit conductors 1 to 0, multipled to the Contact pyramids associated with the registers PT, PU, and PF, conductors 402, 403, and 404 being connected to the apexes of the contact pyramids.

Following the actuation of relay 6I5, relays 603 to 6I0 are reoperated, and relays SII and SI2 are operated, each of the said relays disconnecting a separate one of the digit conductors, whereby they are all progressively disconnected from the energized conductor 6I9. In this way, the value of the resetting digits delivered to the indicators 5|4, 5I5, and 5I6 is controlled in accordance with the setting of the registers PT, PU, and PF, Fig. 4, as explained more fully in the prior applications above mentioned.

When relay 6|2 operates following the interval allotted to the tenth resetting impulse, the locking circuit of start relay 6I6 is opened, whereupon relay 6|6 restores (conductor 405 having been deenergized responsive to the clearing-out of the stock-range register SR, as will be subsequently mentioned more fully). Upon the deenergization of start relay 6I6, conductors GIB, 6|9, 620, and 622 are deenergized at the contacts of relay 6I6, terminating the action of the local sender; unlocking stock relay 5I3; and releasing the registers PT, PU, and PF, Fig. 4.

Receiving subsequent quotations As soon as the distributor 200 has completed one revolution and the wipers 2255 and 221 have come again into their normal position (in which .position the wiper movement is stopped in the in the manner hereinbefore pointed out is disposing of the quotation previously received.

As a further result of brush 221 arriving in its normal position, energizing potential is removed from conductor |28 leading to the sequence-control group, thereby opening the circuit of relay I|0 and removing ground potential from the section-I conductor |29. The section-l connectingl relays, 40|, and 50i, Figs. 4 and 5, now restore to disassociate the section-I portion of the receiver from the common receiving apparatus. The slow-acting relay ||0, however, does not restore at this time in case another quotation is received promptly.

With relay i |0 in operated condition, and with brush 221 in normal position, the energizing potential placed on conductor |21 by brush 221 from the solid ring 223 is extended through contacts of the energized relay ||0 to relay |01. Relay 01 is operated to disconnect conductor |28 from the section-I conductor |29 and connect it to the corresponding conductor |30 associated with section 2. Relay |01 also locks itself in series with the upper winding of relay |08 through the lower contacts of relays |09 and H0, so that relay |08 operates when the distributor starts to move responsive to the following quotation. Relay |08 prepares a circuit for release. relay |09. As soon as the next rotation of the distributor 200 has been completed and the brushes are again in normal position, the consequent energization of conductor |21 by brush 221 results in the closure of a circuit through contacts of operated relays |09 and |08 for the lower winding of relay |08 and release relay |09 in parallel. Relay |08 is maintained energized and relay |99 is energized to open the locking circuit of relay |01. Relay |01 is immediately deenergized to substitute the section-I conductor |29 for the section-2 conductor |30. Relays |08 and |09.both restore when the distributor again starts.

In case the distributor 200 remains in its normal position for more than a moment, slowacting relay I0 restores and clears out the relays 01 and |09, whatever their condition, so that the next received quotation is directed to section i through the medium of the energization of the section-I conductor |29.

When a quotation is received in units and fractions only, and the setting of the tens indicator is therefore not to be disturbed, relay C of the register SR, Fig. 3, is actuated to complete a circuit path for energizing conductor 305. Assuming section to be connected up at this time, energizing potential is extended through contacts of relay 40! and conductor 401 to the units-fractions relay 6| 1. Relay 6|1 locks itself to conductor 622 and disconnects the tens actuating conductor 402'. Y

Receiving quotations other than current quotations As previously mentioned herein, the receiver is arranged to post only the last or current prices of stocks. When a quotation is received which is not a current quotation, the stock digits are registered on registers SI-I, ST, and SU, the range is set up on the range register SR, and the operated relays of these registers lock to conductor 209, all as previously described. No stock relay such as 5| 3 is operated, however, because the setting of the range register SR under these circumstances is such that no circuit is completed for relay 303, and consequently, no potential is applied to the .ground is removed from conductor 209 at the distributor 200.

M oto-r control The stopping of the motor generator MG and the driving motor or the distributor 200 is controlled over the incoming line through the medium of the line relay. To eiect the stopping of the motor generator, the line current is reversed from marking to spacing and permitted to remain that way while the distributor makes a number of uncontrolled revolutions. Line relay |0| restores when the current ow is reversed, starting the distributor over conductor |24 in the usual manner. Relay |02 restores responsive to the restoration of relay |0| and prepares locking circuits for relays |04 to |06 at its lower armature. Responsive to the rotation of the distributor 200, the sequence-control relays |01 to ||0 operate in the hereinbefore-explained manner. The rst time relay |01 operates it closes a circuit for relay |04, which relay locks itself in series with relay |05 through the contacts of the now-restored relay |02. This locking circuit, it will be understood, is ordinarily broken upon the reoperation of relay |02 responsive to the first marking impulse received during the rotation of the distributor. Under the present assumption, however, relay |0| does not reoperate and relay |02 remains restored. That being the case, when relay 01 restores, relay |05 operates in `series with relay |04 and prepares a circuit for relay |00. Upon the next operation of relay |01 a circuit is closed for relay |05 at the upper armature of relay |01 through the upper armature of the operated relay |05. Relay |06 operates and locks itself through the lower contacts of relay |02, at the same time opening the circuit to the starter S over conductors |3| and |32. The starter S now opens the circuit of the motor generator MG, permitting the motor generator to come to rest.

When the motor generator has slowed down suiiiciently to permit the potential across busbars 30| and 302 to be reduced somewhat, relay |03, which has a relatively stiff adjustment, restores and opens an additional point in the circuit of the starter (relay |0| being in restored position). Theother relays depending upon the current from themotor generator restore upon a further reduction of the voltage across the busbars 30| and 302.

The tuning fork and the motor 204 of the distributor both come to rest because they derive Vtheir current from the bus-bars and 302.

In order to'start the receiver into operation again, the marking current is restored over the line, whereupon line relay 0| again operates and closes-a circuit for the starter S to bring the motor generator MG, Fig. 3, into operation. As soon as the motor generator starts, the distributor 200, Fig. 2, is started because of the appearance of the operating potential across bus-bars 39| and 302. Relay |93, Fig. l, operates when the potential builds up across the bus-bars and Vcuts out the contacts of line relay l0! in the motorcontrol circuit.

Four-wire operation When the receiver is to be used in conjunction with a four-wire line, the one-wire line OWL, Fig. 1, is replaced by a four-wire line such as FWL, Fig. 7. In addition, the equipment units EUI and EUZ, Figs. 1 and 2, are removed from the jack mountings JMI and JM2, Figs. l and 2 and 7 and 8, and are replaced by equipment units EU3 and EUQ, Figs. '7 and 8. With the substitutions noted, the receiver is adapted for four-wire operation, as will now be pointed out:

In four-wire operation, all the code units of a quotation digit are received simultaneously, the four relays 10|-104, Fig. '1, being provided for this purpose. The four line relays of Fig. 7 are each in a normally actuated position responsive to spacing current, and the slow-acting motorcontrol relay '|05 is normally energized through contacts of the A and B' line relays 10| and 104. Relay '|06 is energized through contacts of control relay 105 and is maintaining the circuit closed over conductors |35 and |32 to the starter associated with the motor generator, Fig. 3.

Moreover, the governor-controlled motor 8|2 is normally in operation driving the cams which control the generation of impulses for the use of the local senders in restoring and resetting the indicato-rs. It should be kept in mind that the cams associated with the motor 8|2, like the cams in Fig. 2, are shown again in Fig. 6 forl the purpose of simplifying the showing of the wiring. As pointed out, it will be understood that the cams 6|8 to 62|, Fig. 6, and the associated irnpulse springs do not represent equipment in addition to the equipment shown in Figs. 2 and 8, but are merely illustrative of whichever one of the two equipment units may be in use, and that the concerned conductors in Fig. 6 are actually connected to the lower right-hand group of terminals of jack mounting JM2, Figs. 2 and 8.

It will now be assumed that the digits of a stock quotation are successively received over the four-wire line FWL. For each digit, a combination of the relays 10| to '|04 is momentarily deenergized. Upon the receipt of the iirst digit, the shunted slow-acting relay '|01 operates and places a ground potential on the holding conductor H28, thereby preparing a locking circuit for the receiver selecting relays and 802.

In four-wire operation, each stock quotation is prefaced by a digit for selecting one of the two sections of the receiver, which digit may or may not be considered a digit of the stock quotation. Assuming that the received quotation is one concerning section the section-selecting digit includes a marking impulse over each of the channels A, B, and C. Upon the momentary deenergization of the A, B, and C line relays 10|, 102, and 103, a circuit is closed at the inner upper contacts of relays 10| to '|03 and over conductor |21 for the section-l selecting relay 80|. Relay 80| operates and at its inner lower armature it locks itself to the energized holding conductor |28 by way of the upper contacts of release relay 8| At its upper armature, relay 00| applies energizing potential from conductor |28 (by way of the upper contacts of relay 8| l) to the register locking conductor 209; at armature 8|5 relay 80| energizes the locking conductor 8|3 to prepare locking circuits for the counting relays 804- 8| at armature 3|6 it energizes the operating conductor 8|4 to prepare operating circuits for the said counting relays; and at its lower armature it places an energizing potential on the section-I selecting conductor |29 to energize theh section-I connecting relays 40| and 50| for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.

The distribution of the received group of impulses to the registers is made by relays 804-8I0, controlled by the priming relay 803. These relays are operated in what is commonly known as a counting chain and in a manner now to be pointed out.

Each time a combination of the receiving relays 10i to 10d is deenergized, priming relay 803 is operated over conductor |25. Accordingly, relay 8d3 is operated by'relays 10| to |03 when the section-selecting digit is received. Upon operating, relay 803 at this time prepares a locking circuit ior itself in series with the upper winding of relay which locking circuit is completed over conductors m3 and |28 upon the operation ofv armature 8|6 of the section-selecting relay 80|, before mentioned. Relay 8M energizes in series with relay 803 when the line relays are reoperated at the end of the current reversals constituting the digit. Upon operating, relay 800 locks its lower winding to conductor 8|@ at its lower armature, while at its upper armature it transfers the operating circuit to the upper winding of relay 805. Relay 803 restores while the operating circuit is being transferred.

The relays M35-8H are successively operated in circuit with relay S03 responsive to the impulse groups constituting the stock quotation. Each of the above-mentioned relays releases the preceding one of the relays 8013 to 8H) upon operation.

The conductors l2 24 are the ones over which the setting impulses are delivered to the registers. These conductors are associated successively with the registers SH, ST, SU, SR, FT, PU, and PF, Figs. 3 and 4, by the relays 804 to 8|0.

When relay 8|! responds following the receipt of the price-fractions digit, it opens the locking circuit of relay 8|0 at its lower armature; locks itself to conductor SiS at its inner lower armature; opens its initial energizing circuit at its inner upper armature; and at its upper armature it opens the locking circuit of relay 00| and the holding circuit closed over conductor 209 for the registers of Fig. 3. Relay Bti restores at this point and disconnects the conductors 200, 8|3, 8|4, and |29. Relay 8|0 restores responsive to the opening of its locking circuit at the lower contacts of relay 8| l, immediately reclosing the operating chain circuit to relay B04 to prepare for the immediate receipt of the following stock quotation. Relay 8|| is restored by the removal of locking potential from conductor 8|3 by relay 80|.

When the next quotation is received (which is a quotation for section 2 if it is received immediately), relays 10|-104 are momentarily deenergized to close a circuit for the section- 2 selecting relay 002, whereupon relay 802 operates to select the second section of the receiver and to otherwise prepare the receiver for operation as explained in connection with relay 80|.

It may be pointed out that the motor generator is shut down (when the four-wire modification is used) responsive to a prolonged deenergization of the receiving relays. Relay deener-gizes under this condition and opens the circuit of relay 106. When relay 106 restores, it opens the circuit over conductors |3| and |32 to the starter associated with the motor generator (relay 10| and 103 being restored).

When the receiver is to be again started into operationand the relays 10 |104 are reoperated, relaysilDZ and 103 close the starter circuit through contacts of the restored relay 706. As `soon as the motor generator has come into operation and built up suiiicient operating voltage, relay H15 operates through contacts of relays 10| and 104 and reoperates relay to cut relays 102 and 103 out ofthe starting circuit.

What is claimedis:

1. In a stock-quotation receiver comprising a common portion and two individual sections, section-selecting means and stock-selecting means included in said common portion, means controlled from a distancefor actuating both of said selecting means, stock relays assigned to each section,'means controlled by a portion of said stock-selecting means for partially actuating a stock relay of either section, and means controlled jointly by the remaining part of the stock-selecting apparatus and said section-selecting apparatus for completing the operation of the said partially operated stock relay.

'2."In a stock-quotation system, a stock-quotation line over which current and previous stock quotations are transmitted, each quotation comprising a plurality of digits, a stock-quotation receiver operatively associated with said line toreceive'stock quotations thereover, said receiver including indicators for posting the current prices of stocks, registering means for registering the digits of stock quotations, sending means operative under the control of said registering means to send setting impulses to said indicators, and means operative under the control of said registering means for starting said sending means into operation only in case the quotation received is one concerning the current selling price of a stock.

3. In a stock .quotation receiver, stock registers and price registers, means for selecting a stock under control of said stock'registers, means for posting the price thereof under control of said price registers, means for interchangeably inserting in the receiver either of two receiving units adapted to receive stock and price digits over two kinds of lines, a line of one kind being one over which the signals in a signal group are received successively in coded time relationship, while a line of the other kind is one over which signals,

forming a signal group arereceived simultaneously over separate channels, and means for interchangeably inserting in said receiver either oftwo distributing units, corresponding, respectively, to said receiving units, for distributing the received digits to said registers.

4. In a stock quotation receiver, stock registering and selecting equipment common to all stocks to be quoted, price registers and posting equipment divided 'into'two sections, stock selecting equipment individual to each section, a plurality of stock relays, also divided into two sections and each effective when operated to place an associated part of the posting equipment under the control of the price registers of the corresponding section, each stock relay requiring control over two circuits for its operation, and two control circuits for each relay, one circuit controlled through said common stock selecting equipment and the other controlled through said individual stockV selecting equipment.

V5. In a ystock quotation receiver, three stock registers for registering the respective digits designating a stock, a set of digit conductors outgoingfrom each register, circuit connections at two of said registers whereby apotential is applied to selected-digitconductors responsive to theY operation of the registers, a stock range register,and circuit connections between the'third of said stock registers 4and said stock range register whereby theapplication of a potential to a selected digit conductor outgoing from such thirdl stock register is depend-ent upon the'setting of said stock range register.

6. In a stock quotation receiver, a plurality of registers 'for registering, respectively, the characters designating a stock, a plurality of stock relays, a stock selector by means of which said registers cooperate to jointly select andoperate a stock relay, a range register, and circuit arrangements preventing oneoi said registers from cooperating to operate `a stock relay-if a particular range is set up on said range register.

7. In a stock'quotationreceiver, a plurality of setsot conductors, a register selectivelycontrolling the application of potenti-al to the conductors in each set, stock relays, selecting circuits for the stoclarelays requiring the application of potential toione conductor of-each set to operate a stock relay, a rangeregister, and circuit arrangements such that no potential can be applied to any conductor Vof one of said sets by the associated register in case thesaid range register is given a particular predetermined setting.

8. In a stock quotation receiver in which the indicators for a. certain range or ranges of quotations are omitted, stock registers, stockselecting equipment controlledrby said stock registers, a range register, and means controlled by said range register whereby the selectionof a stool; responsivel tothe operation of the stock registers is made dependent upon the range register being set for a range as to which thequotation indicators are provided.

9. Ina stock quotation receiver which includes stock and price registers` and also a stock range register, one of said price registers comprising a group of relays, a localisender, a start relay for thesender, means for operating said start relay o-rfnot dependentn on the value of the setting of said range register, and a locking circuit for said register relays Acontrolled by said start relay.

10. In a stock quotation receiver which includes stock and price registers and also a stock range register, said price registers each comprising a plurality of relays, locking circuits for said relays, and means whereby the completion of said locking circuits is made dependent upon the value of the setting of said range register.

1I. In combination;y a stock quotation receiver including. means for storing groups of signals corresponding to stock quotations and including means for controllingithe posting of stock quotations accordingto the vstored signals; a rst supplementaryreceiving and distributing means eiective to receive successive signal groups over a first line, the signals of each gro-up in coded time relationship, and to distribute the received signals to the storing means; a second supplementary receiving and distributing means'eifective to receive successive signals over a second line, all the signals of a group simultaneously, and to distribute the received signals to the storing means; similarly disposed terminals on said iirst and second supplementary receiving and distributing means, and terminals on said receiver for cooperating Ainterchangeably ywith the terminals of the said two supplementary means whereby either may be conveniently added to the receiver in lieu of the other tocomplete the receiver for operation from the available one of said two lines.

l2. In combination, an incomplete stock quotation receiver including means for storing groups of signals corresponding to stock quotations and including means for controlling the posting of the stock quotations according to the stored signals, terminals on said receiver to which either an incoming one-Wire or an incoming stock-quotation four-Wire line may be secured, a first completing means for said receiver including a one- Wire impulse distributor, a second completing means including a four-Wire distributor composed of relays successively operable responsive to the receipt of quotation signals over the four-wire line, suicient terminals on said incomplete receiver for cooperating with either of said completing means toform a complete stock quotation receiver, terminals on the iirst said completing means effective when the first completing means is mounted on the receiver for cooperating with corresponding ones of the terminals on the receiver to enable the one-wire distributor therein to receive signals over the one-wire line and distribute them through the cooperating terminals to the said storing means, and terminals on the second completing means for enabling such completing means, when mo-unted on the receiver, to receive signals over a connected four-Wire line and distribute them through the cooperating terminals to the said storing means, whereby the said incomplete receiver may be readily transformed into a complete one-wire stock quotation receiver by the addition of the first-named completing means and readily transformed into a complete four-wire receiver by the alternative addition oi the second of said completing means.

i3. In a stock-quotation receiver comprising a common portion and two individual sections, section-selecting means and stock-selecting means included in said common portion and both controllable from a distance to perform their selecting functions, stock relays assigned to stocks of the first section, other stock relays assigned to stocks of the second section, means controlled by a portion of said stock-selecting means for partially actuating the relays assigned to one or more of the stocks Without regard to section, and means controlled jointly by the remaining part of the stock-selecting means and said sectionselecting means for completing the operation of a single one of the partially operated stock relays, in the event that one of the partially operated stock relays is assigned to the section selected and also corresponds to the desired stock to be selected.

14. In a stock quotation system, a stock quotation line over which current and previous stock quotations are transmitted, each stock quotation including an indication of Whether it is a current quo-tation or a previous quotation, a stock quotation receiver operatively associated with said line to receive both current and previous stock quotations thereover, said receiver including indicators for posting only the current prices of stocks, registering means for registering the digits of stock quotations, sending means operable under the control of said registering means to send setting impulses to said receivers, and means operable under the control of said registering means for starting said sending means into operation only in case the quotation received is one concerning the current selling price of a stock.

l5. In a stock quotation system, a stock quotation line over which current and previous stock quotations are transmitted, each stock quotation including a plurality of digits, each of which indicates Whether the quotation is one concerning the current selling price of a stock or concerning a previous selling price of the stock, a stock quotation receiver operatively associated With said line to receive quotations thereover said receiver including indicators for posting the current prices oi stocks, registering means for registering the digits of stockquotations, sending means operative under the control of said registering means to send setting impulses to said indicators, andmeans operative under the control of the part of said registering means Which registers the digit indicative of Whether or not the quotation received is one concerning the current selling price of a stock for starting said sending means into operation only in case the quotation received is one concerning the current selling price oi the stock.

16. In a stock quotation receiver, means for receiving and registering stock quotations, said means including a range register capable of taking up any one of a number of range settings, each setting corresponding to a range digit of different value, the values of the range digits being indicative of the varying combinations of ranges of the stock quotations, a single-range indicator for each stock to be quoted, means for selecting a stock indicator under control of part of said quotation registering means, a local sender normally ready to actuate any selected indicator under control of an additional part of the said quotation registering means, and means responsive to only such settings of said range register as are indicative of the range to which the indicators at the receiver correspond for starting said sender.

HAROLD C. ROBINSON. 

